Paul McCartney taking Kurt Cobain's Spot

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Well you were a small child when they came out so....

    What's your point??

    Little kids don't even find out about things until they become pop culture. Your memory is also a bit fuzzier later when you are trying to remember something that happened when you were a kid, vs remembering something that happened when you were an adult.

    Your memory also gets fuzzier as you get older and senile.

    All I'm saying is that I wasn't around when the Mach 1 was built, but I can rebuild the engine with my eyes closed.

    Age has zilch to do with intelligence.

    Music, I know. You can stick to Minnie and your college years.

    :laugh:

    I don't know crap about engines, but I know music! (eta: Especially the music I listened to in college.)

    I think the real issue is perspective. Wendy is old enough to have been very aware of what was going on culturally at that time. A 10-year-old isn't as aware and you can't look back and understand it. You didn't live it at an old enough age to feel the real emotion of it.

    It isn't about being smart or dumb or having or not having taste. You just had to experience it. If you didn't, there's nothing you can do about that.

    Nirvana's music would not have endured as it has if it wasn't good, no matter if Kurt lived or died. It just wouldn't.

    I agree there... and I even said that 'taste is taste' in earlier posts. She is arguing for the sake of arguing, so I will feed her.

    *Sigh*, I don't care about her taste in music, but facts are facts. And age has nothing to do with how a song or band makes you feel. It is pretty closed-minded to even think such a thing. Just because one wasn't around to experience it doesn't mean they can't feel or understand it.
    You misunderstand what I'm saying. Sure, you can love a song written and recorded decades before you were born. But you can't appreciate the cultural phenomena surrounding that song's birth.

    I will never truly know what it was like in the early 1950s when rock music first took hold because I was not there. But I can still love or hate the music that came from it.
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    At least it's not Bieber.

    Good point.

    Maybe Bieber could duet with Kesha?
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    *bangs head on desk*

    That's what I think of that.

    I just can't believe that Dave Grohl actually asked him.

    WTF was he thinking?

    :noway:

    Nononononononononononononononononononononononono!!
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
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    I hope this is a joke.
  • fraser112
    fraser112 Posts: 405
    All i can say is im glad their still picking chunks of kurt out of a wall so he wont have to spin in his grave

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  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    Ummm WHAT? That's f*ckin terrible. :: punches wall:: Kurts rolling in his grave right now.

    If Kurt is rolling in his grave I cannot imagine what John Lennon and George Harrison are doing.

    A lot of Paul's solo work was not the best, but give the guy some respect, he is a former BEATLE.

    It's not like the Beatles were the greatest and most influential band of all time or anything, oh wait......
  • NormalSaneFLGuy
    NormalSaneFLGuy Posts: 1,344 Member
    *bangs head on desk*

    That's what I think of that.

    I just can't believe that Dave Grohl actually asked him.

    WTF was he thinking?

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  • _Bob_
    _Bob_ Posts: 1,487 Member
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  • IzzyBooNZ1
    IzzyBooNZ1 Posts: 1,289 Member
    just...no. wrong. so bad. ugh.
  • sannsk
    sannsk Posts: 203 Member
    So... How was it??
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    So this was the travishamockery everyone was talking about? seemed okay to me.

    boy...am i glad people don't over react before anything happens :huh:

    http://youtu.be/624HfkMty_8
  • Louisianababy93
    Louisianababy93 Posts: 1,709 Member
    :grumble: :noway: WHATTHEF*CK!!!

    That'd be like replacing Gene Simmons from Kiss with Brittney Spears..
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    :grumble: :noway: WHATTHEF*CK!!!

    That'd be like replacing Gene Simmons from Kiss with Brittney Spears..

    Did you watch the performance?
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    So this was the travishamockery everyone was talking about? seemed okay to me.

    boy...am i glad people don't over react before anything happens :huh:

    http://youtu.be/624HfkMty_8
    I didn't stay up for it (and youtube is blocked at work), but I figured it wouldn't be any kind of attempt to "replace" Cobain with McCartney at all.... people definitely overreact easily...
  • heypurdy
    heypurdy Posts: 196 Member
    So weird!
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    I saw a clip on youtube this morning and didn't think it was as bad as I expected it to be. He wasn't trying to be KC.
  • PhoenixIsis
    PhoenixIsis Posts: 31
    They are both very talented and one thing they do have in common, they can write their own music. At least they didn't get one of these "musician" stars who can't write their own songs and need their voice to go through the studio first and add a dash of auto tone before they even remotely sound like a singer while handed over what to sing. I'm glad they got a true musician to fill in for Cobain's spot instead of these wannabes.
  • starrisonmclennon
    starrisonmclennon Posts: 64 Member
    i love nirvana, i love paul mccartney, but i somehow don't see this panning out to be a good idea, however i won't judge it until i see it
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    It was an awesome jam. I think the people downing McCartney in this thread for the most part just have no idea who he is, other than an aging musician. The Beatles were a ridiculously psychedelic band for their time, and Paul was always the more classic rock/hard rock guy of the band (he wrote, played guitar, and sang on "Helter Skelter," among most of the other "heavier" Beatles songs.)

    Sir Paul is one of the most versatile musicians I've ever seen, along with Jimi Hendrix.
  • AngryDiet
    AngryDiet Posts: 1,349 Member
    I'm gonna give it to them. While the song wasn't exactly Nirvana's essence, or particularly great, it was a good way for them to get back together for a cause. And McCartney did better than I would have expected.

    It says something when a former Beatle isn't expected to, nor can, live up to Cobain's legacy. But he did pay a nice homage, I thought.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    :grumble: :noway: WHATTHEF*CK!!!

    That'd be like replacing Gene Simmons from Kiss with Brittney Spears..

    You just compared a Beatle to Britney. That is pure BLASPHEMY!

    :smile:
  • D0ry
    D0ry Posts: 59 Member
    I love the Beatles. Not so much Nirvana, but I have great respect for them. It did sound strange news to me too. But what I saw was amazing. As it's been already said, that's not the best song in the world. It's just awesome how legendary musicians can embrace the idea of doing something together for a good cause. While so many know-it-alls wrote so much crap and put so many ridiculous names on that attempt. You should have more trust and respect for all those musicians.

    I want to go to Paul's concert one day. Sigh.

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